A former Romulus police officer who lives in Brighton was sentenced Tuesday to probation for his role in a corruption case.

Former Detective Sgt. Richard Balzer was one of seven people charged in connection with a corruption probe of the Romulus Police Department’s Special Investigative Unit. He was sentenced in Wayne County Circuit Court to three years of probation for his no-contest plea to embezzlement by a public official and obstruction of justice.

Balzer also was ordered to pay $11,000 in restitution, according to court records.

Wayne County prosecutors said Balzer, a 25-year Romulus police veteran, submitted false expense reports and false police reports detailing fraudulent undercover investigative work at the Landing Strip Bar in Romulus and Subi’s Place in Southgate between January 2006 and September 2011.

The fraudulent requests were for a variety of alleged expenses that “were either never incurred or were falsely inflated as to actual costs,” Maria Miller, an assistant prosecutor and director of communications for the Wayne County prosecutor’s office, said in a previous interview.

Under a plea deal, prosecutors dismissed charges alleging Balzer conducted a criminal enterprise and conspiracy to commit the same, both 20-year felonies. Prosecutors also dismissed charges of uttering and publishing, misconduct in office and neglect of duty.

Co-defendants Richard Bruce Landry and Donald Ralph Hopkins also entered plea deals, and were each sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, court records show. Landry earlier pleaded no contest to uttering and publishing, while Hopkins entered a plea to embezzling.

Landry was ordered to pay $4,650 in restitution, while Hopkins was ordered to pay $1,333.

Former Romulus Police Chief Michael Charles St. Andre pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced in October to five years to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a criminal enterprise and five years to 10 years for embezzling by a public official.

St. Andre also was given two years to five years in prison for obstruction of justice.

St. Andre’s wife, Sandra Vlaz-St. Andre, was convicted in January of conspiracy to commit criminal enterprise, filing false tax returns and receiving and concealing more than $20,000 in property, according to court records. She was subsequently sentenced to seven years to 20 years in prison, court records show.

Another co-defendant, Larry Robert Droege, was convicted in March of common-law offenses and willful neglect of duty, and he was subsequently sentenced to 18 months if probation, according to court records.

The last co-defendant, Jeremy James Channells, was sentenced in March to three years of probation for common-law offenses and willful neglect of duty.